Open your text editor (Here, Notepad is used. This way, we can see VBScript in action by running the particular HTML file on the Internet Explorer web browser. In this tutorial series, we will embed our VBScript code within a very basic HTML code. Let’s start by developing a simple VB Script program.

Text Editor – You can use normal text editors like Notepad++ or Microsoft Expression Web or even Notepad to write VBScript code.

Internet Explorer – any version, but it is good to use IE6 or above.

You only need 2 simple tools to create and run VBScript code throughout this tutorial:

IE (Internet Explorer)– The simplest hosting environment we can use to run VBScript.

WSH (Windows Script Host)– The native hosting environment of the Windows OS.

IIS (Internet Information Server) – Microsoft’s web server.

Right now, there are 3 environments where VB Scripts can run. In this tutorial, you will learn more about. It needs a bigger programming language to host it.

If you want your webpage to be more lively and interactive, then you can incorporate VBScript in your code. The syntax of VBScript is very similar to that of Visual Basic. VBScript is a light version of Microsoft Visual Basic. It is client-side scripting language like JavaScript. VBScript (Visual Basic Script) is developed by Microsoft with the intention of developing dynamic web pages.

Visual basic code example